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Fish are easily caught after they have 



been "shocked" and are placed in wire 



holding baskets to be counted, weighed. 



measured and tagged (left) to deter- 



' ~*i mine growth rates, migration patterns 



and other data used in scientific fish- 

 eries management practices. This shocking method in no way harms fish and 

 they resume normal activity within a few minutes. Final sep in the shocking 

 operation is cleaning the nets (right). 



Creel census showed that 38 per cent of the legal plant of rain- 

 bows was caught by anglers while only two per cent of the finger- 

 ling plant was caught; however. 93 per cent of the fish caught were 

 wild fish from natural reproduction. Considering the hatchery-reared 

 fish returned to the creel on a monetary basis, each fingerling trout 

 caught cost the Fish and Game Department $1.43 per fish while each 

 legal planted trout cost $0.35. Since 3.000 fingerling and 1.000 legal 

 rainbow trout were planted in the 15.5 miles of stream each year, 

 by noting that these, at considerable cost to the department, contrib- 

 uted only 7 per cent to the catch, it is seen that wise management 

 points to more concentrated efforts on the stream environment itself 

 to insure high, natural production of fish. 



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